ESPN's basketball writers have spoken...well, at least written...and their consensus is that the Nets will be, in Chris Broussard's words, "horrible". Six of the ten put the Nets at the bottom of the East and all but one put them last in the Atlantic. The one holdout: David Thorpe, who likes the youth and writes, "They could be a scary team after the break". Still, Thorpe only puts them 11th in the East and 4th in the Atlantic.